FILE

  Open, close, rewind a file. The first operand is positional.      FILE OPENCLOSEREWINDENDFILE[,] UNIT=, [STATUS='status',] [NAME='fname',] ;

Logical file number. No default.

status

For OPEN, one of NEW, OLD, SCRATCH, UNKNOWN. Default=UNKNOWN.
For CLOSE, one of KEEP, DELETE. Default=KEEP. Not used for REWIND and ENDFILE. Need not be enclosed by apostrophes.

fname

File name. Used for OPEN only. Need not be enclosed by apostrophes if the name does not include parenthesis, comma, and semicolon.